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The Tahoe Joe\u2019s restaurant at Shaw and Marks in Fresno closed in 2016. (File photo)<\/p>\n
CRAIG KOHLRUSS<\/p>\n
ckohlruss@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n
Restaurant closures and downtown Fresno\u2019s struggles dominated The Fresno Bee\u2019s coverage Wednesday, with two shuttered eateries and a hard look at what\u2019s ailing the city\u2019s core. Here\u2019s a rundown of the top stories of the day, from a longtime Central Valley steakhouse chain shrinking further to a popular taqueria pivoting back to his food truck.<\/p>\n
Original stories by Amber Hair, Erik Galicia and Bethany Clough<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Fresno Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tahoe Joe\u2019s restaurant at Shaw and Marks in Fresno closed in 2016. (File photo) CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-474230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790258771_64_IMG_FRS_Fresno_move0_3_1_I2QBG2SF_L893748416.JPG\" "\\"IMG_FRS_Fresno_move0_3_1_I2QBG2SF_L893748416.JPG\\"")
The sun sets over downtown Fresno skyline viewed from a drone camera on June 10, 2025. Craig Kohlruss Fresno Here are Wednesday\u2019s top stories to catch you up\u201cSteakhouse chain born in Fresno closes another location. What happened to Tahoe Joe\u2019s?\u201d<\/a> Tahoe Joe\u2019s Famous Steakhouse quietly shuttered its Visalia restaurant on Sept. 21, leaving the 31-year-old Central Valley franchise with just two locations, in Fresno and Bakersfield. Founded in 1995 by restaurateur David Fansler, the chain has changed hands multiple times and is now owned by multinational MTY Food Group. The original Fresno restaurant on West Shaw Avenue closed in 2016.\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with downtown Fresno? Longtime businessman has some answers\u201d<\/a> Key downtown properties are hitting the market at multi-million-dollar prices, but longtime businessman John Ostlund says sellers are asking \u201ctomorrow\u2019s price today\u201d while parking shortages and vacancies persist. Mayor Jerry Dyer counters that the asking prices reflect $250 million in state-funded infrastructure work and other investments in recent years. Four buildings are currently listed along Fulton Street, mostly near the Mariposa Street intersection.\u201cTaqueria in downtown Fresno that made headlines closes; owner says the tacos will be back\u201d<\/a> Tacos El Cabezon announced on Instagram Tuesday it has permanently closed its brick-and-mortar shop at 1234 Fulton St., which opened in March. The business bought a new food trailer and plans to get \u201cback to our roots\u201d selling tacos by truck, though no timeline was given. The landlord said the restaurant was \u201cbehind almost two months in rent.\u201d<\/p>\n